Well I know I said this would be a one shot but this is too much fun and I heard your requests! So now it's time to go from one shot to full story people and it's gonna be a wild ride, I wonder how Ryoko will fair as she adapts to the shinobi world, and what will come as Tenchi and his ladies work to find a way to get her home especially with Washu who will be bent on figuring out the anomaly. So let's go to the reviews!
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Chapter 1: Into The Unknown
On earth, the Masaki residence was buzzing with serious activity. Within a pocket dimension Tenchi Masaki and most of his harem of fiancés were of worried expressions, the last two fiancés Tsunami and Washu Hakubi of the Chousin, the three creation goddesses were meeting with the third member, their sister Tokimi.
"Now, I believe it's time to discuss the matter at hand." Began Washu.
"I came as soon as you contacted me sister, I too felt shook by this sudden breach of the fabric of reality." Tokimi said.
"Yes, I'm baffled by the sudden coming of that vortex, it was powerful too but somehow we couldn't sense it coming in time." Added Tsunami.
"Um, I know this is a serious matter an all but wouldn't it be best to figure out how to get Ryoko back?" Tenchi asked.
Washu's serious expression softened as she looked at her love.
"Tenchi, I understand your worry, but we can't fly into this matter blind, we don't have any idea where this anomaly sent little Ryoko, and despite our omnipotent nature we can't seem to sense her for whatever reason."
"You can't be serious about that right?" Noike said making her voice known.
"I'm afraid so."
Tsunami then took the moment to to speak her mind.
"Regarding the breach of the space/time continuum, it seems the power of the anomaly that caused the vortex is above even our plain of existence, which is for beings like us would be virtually impossible."
"You are right about that Tsunami, though Tenchi proved that there is a power beyond even our own, the way I see it I analyzed the leftover residue energy from the scene of the incident, and to my amazement there seems to be a breach in twenty-six dimensions at once from the rift, valuable proof of the bosonic string theory." Washu said.
"Could the residue happen to leave a trail?" Tokimi asked.
"That's actually what I'm looking into, it seems it there is a path, the only thing that baffles me is what I found out from tracing it."
"And that would be?" Asked Tsunami.
"Well, it's gonna be a moment to piece together how to explain it but I do have a hypothesis…"
Ryoko landed just a bit away from the main gate of the village that was the home of the orphaned bundle in her arms. Naruto, the name of the baby that the now dead parents she met had entrusted to her to keep him safe.
Ryoko originally wanted to fly into the village and directly to a hospital to drop the blonde bundle off, but considering the excitement of an attack from a giant kaiju fox would leave the local security forces super high strung, so she thought she would go in through the gate itself. Before she began to move she looked down at the sleeping baby in her arms, Naruto had woken up from slumber and was looking up at Ryoko with bright innocent blue eyes as he cooed at her.
Ryoko couldn't help the small smile coming to her face, it was like the innocent look a baby Tenchi would give her astral form whenever him and his mother Kiyone would pass by.
"Heh, for a little runt you sure are a cutie pie."
Naruto only laughed as he reached for a strand of her hair and played with it. Ryoko then begins walking towards the village gate as a couple of Leaf ninja guards spotted them.
"Halt, the Hidden Leaf is under lockdown due to a major attack, no one is allowed to enter at this time."
"This baby belongs here, I'm simply here to safely drop him off." Ryoko said.
"Is that so. Identification ma'am."
"Uh…Identification?"
"Hold it!"
Alerted by the voice of an old man, Ryoko saw several individuals appear before her, almost all of them wearing masks of different animals, in the middle was an aged man wearing a set of armor.
"Lord 3rd! What are you doing here!?" Asked one of the guards.
"I was able to track residue of the Nine Tailed Fox." Hiruzen said grumbling the last part as to not reveal it.
The aged retired Hokage looked directly at Ryoko with interest and suspicion.
"I ask you, who are you and how did you get a hold of that child?"
"My name is Ryoko…Ryoko Masaki, and I am here under the request of the boy's late parents to bring him home safe." Ryoko said opting to use the last name of her husband to be.
Hiruzen went wide eyed at the mention of late parents and his face grimaced, he saw the corpses of Minato and Kushina with the fox demon nowhere in sight, he even took notice of the alter and pieced enough together to know what transpired.
"Sheath your weapons! But do not let your guards down." Hiruzen orders his Anbu Black ops.
"Young lady if I may request you come with us, to answer some questions, rest assured it will be kept entirely private."
Ryoko went into brief thought and saw this as a chance to get some answers of her own, so she agreed and followed Hiruzen and his Anbu into the village.
Despite the damage from the attack Ryoko looked around with interest, much of the place looked like a mixture of feudal era Japan but with some modern architecture and tech. In fact the writing was a big indication that this world she found herself in was certainly stylized after the country. She looked around at the people, many of whom were having their injuries treated, some were found but were no longer breathing, a very depressing thought.
Soon enough Ryoko was lead to the Hokage Tower, from there Hiruzen would dismiss his Anbu as he led her inside and up to the office.
"I activated special sound barrier seals to keep outside ears from listening in, I don't want anything discussed to leave the room, please have a seat. Now. Miss Ryoko Masaki from what I can guess, you were there in Minato and Kushina's final moments?"
"You can just call me Ryoko, and yes, I was there to witness it but I never Codie get there names at the time. We're they important people by chance?"
"Yes, Minato was the Leaf Village's 4th Hokage, my successor, and Kushina Uzumaki was his wife."
"I see, so that means Naruto here is the son of leadership."
"Correct, but now I will ask the big questions, from where do you hail from? It is of great suspicion that you suddenly show towards the end of the Nine Tails attack l, I want to ensure you're no threat from another village."
"Believe me old geezer I'm not a spy or threat, just super confused if anything, I don't even know how I winded in this place to begin with. As for where I'm from let's just say my home is very, VERY far from here." Ryoko said.
"Ah, so you're a foreigner to these lands, well, while suspicion still remains I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt if Minato and Kushina were willing to entrust their only child to you to bring back safe."
"Minato said he hopes the village will treat this kid as a hero for having that monster sealed in him, I'm somehow thinking it's going to wind up the opposite, and are fox monsters common around here?"
"You're intuition is frighteningly on point on the first thing. Before Naruto, it was his mother Kushina who housed the fox as a jinchuriki, however such a thing is a massive burden for the individual as you take fear into account. As for your question, no, the fox demon is its only kind, one of nine tailed beasts."
Ryoko's face scrunched, she had seen a lot of crazy things, but this was gonna be up there in the top ten, now she decided to ask her own questions.
"Where exactly am I? I don't mean the village but in general."
"You are in the elemental nations, made up of five great nations with minor ones in between, the Hidden Leaf Village is within the Land of Fire."
And so Hiruzen went on to summarize as much as he could about the land and it's system including the ninja system which was essentially this worlds military, there was even a land of samurai too. Needless to say the discussion took at most an hour an Ryoko looked like she was on the verge of a headache.
"Are you ok Ryoko?" Hiruzen asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah, yeah I'm fine or whatever, this is just a lot of info even if summarized to digest completely."
"I understand it can be a lot to new comers, now I believe it is time to discuss the matters of young Naruto here."
Ryoko took a moment to look at the sleeping bundle in her arms, the sight was angel like and brought a small smile to her face, then it switched to concern.
"This boy is now an orphan, will he be ok once I hand him over to you, I'm simply going to finish my obligation and go from there, I don't have any reason to stick around."
"I can assure your you that Naruto will be safe and protected at all costs."
"I'll take your word for gramps."
Just as Ryoko was gonna hand Naruto off the sleeping bundle stirred awake and looked at her before laughing.
"You're home now kid, make sure to be good to gramps." Ryoko said.
"If I may kindly ask you to stop calling me that." Hiruzen said with a twitching brow.
"Sure whatever gramps." Ryoko casually said to Hiruzen's annoyance.
As soon as she handed the baby Naruto to the aged Hokage, he began to reach for her telling her not to go.
"Sorry squirt, I can't stay and take care with of you, I had a hell of time trying to care for someone's kid once, I'm not suited to the mother role."
"Do you know where you will be going?" Asked Hiruzen.
"Honestly, I have no idea right now, guess wherever the road takes me, see ya."
Once Ryoko exited the office she ran into another aged man, he looked bandaged up at his right eye and had a look of a war hawk that was off putting to Ryoko, this man was giving her bad vibes all together. After the brief eye contact the old man walked into the office. Once it was clear Ryoko took flight and phased through the wall before going off into the night.
A few days passes and Ryoko was lying around on a tree branch just above her makeshift camp in the night, she didn't go to far from the village as she settled to regain some energy sapped from her during the little unplanned reality hop. In the frame of time she wondered how she was gonna get back, or if her goddess mother was trying to figure someway to reach her, hell there psychic link was virtually cut. She missed them, even Ayeka, but she had to worry about the present time, she was nothing if not resourceful through her tenure as a pirate.
Recently there were moments where she thought about baby Naruto, and felt empathy, someone who would grow up with no one to raise him properly, and potentially, whether she admits it or not, become as Washu said, a good for nothing.
"Tch! Good for nothing, 2000 thousand years you didn't go out of your way to be the parent I needed." She said to herself.
"Hm, I guess it wouldn't hurt to check on the kid."
"Ryoko flew into the Leaf, the first place she expected Naruto to be was at a hospital first, considering it would be wise to get a newborn a checkup to ensure good health. As she got to the hospital she slipped through the walls and making sure she wasn't seen in the process. Soon enough she found the ward that held baby Naruto and looked into the window, he was sleeping soundly in a bed, fully dressed in baby pajamas.
Ryoko smiled as it seemed everything was ok.
The sound of footsteps alerted her as she quickly phases into the wall, a female nurse was walking by and seemed to enter the room where Naruto was, said nurse stopped right at the left side of the bed as Ryoko peaked her head slightly through the wall.
"You killed my husband demon, now he will rid you from the world right here right now."
Ryoko's eyes went wide as the nurse took a scalpel and held it high ready to strike.
"Die!"
The nurse was cut off when what looked like a blade of orange light was pointed directly at her by Ryoko, who sported a very pissed off expression.
"Give me one GOOD reason not to hack your arm off."
"Who-who are you!? How did you get in here!?"
"Answer me!"
"I was trying to get rid of the demon! It took so many lives my husband included! It must be put down."
Ryoko scowled harder as she looked at Naruto.
"Tell me does that look like a God damn demon to you!? It's just a kid, a baby!"
Ryoko dispelled the light sword and punched the nurse square in the face knocking her out.
"So much for ensuring the kid's safety old man."
The sound crying forced Ryoko to look at Naruto who woke up from the disturbance. She went over to the bundle and cradled him in her arms, gently speaking to him.
"Shhh. Don't cry, it's ok, the scary nurse won't harm you anymore little squirt."
Naruto stopped crying and got a good look at Ryoko before laughing and playing with her hair.
"So you remember me huh?"
Ryoko's expression changed to a more serious one as she decided to pay Hiruzen a visit, and flew out of the hospital with Naruto along for the ride as he laughed, during the flight Ryoko took the time to do a few aerial tricks making the baby happy.
Hiruzen was in a rut, with Minato gone he was the only one to take the Hokage role so he came out of retirement, then there was the funeral for all who perished in the Nine Tail's attack, the whole village especially mourned the loss of their youngest and most beloved Hokage and his wife Kushina. Then he had a recent argument with his old friend and rival Danzo Shimura about raising Naruto in his ROOT program which Hiruzen was strictly against and wanted it disbanded. Pressure from the civilian council, and then the secrecy of Naruto, he passed a law saying any talk about the infant jinchuriki was punishable by life sentence or death. Yet somehow info was leaked and the villagers both civilians and ninja alike were quick to prejudice against the youngling, guess the last wish Minato wanted that the foreign Ryoko relayed to him was far from possible.
"Ugh…things don't seem to be looking to bright right now."
"They sure as hell don't gramps."
Hiruzen quickly registered the familiar voice and would be shocked to see Ryoko phase through the ceiling and land lightly in front of him with a less than pleased look.
"Miss Ryoko! What are you doing back here? And why do you have Naruto with you!?"
"Sit down old man, I'd like to have a word with you."
AN: and that is the second chapter! Hoped you enjoyed the read and I will see you next time!
Next chapter: Adoption
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